geli encrypted memory disk?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:33:57PM +0200, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 from the 17th I wanted to play a bit with 
+> geli. First try was an encryptet memory disk.
+> 
+> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/sdisk bs=2028 count=220
+> mdconfig -a -t vnode -S 2048 -f /var/sdisk -u 3
+> geli init -a AES -s 2048 /dev/md3
+> 
+> Geli asks me the new password twice and then exits with the following error:
+> 
+> Cannot store metadata on /dev/md3: Invalid argument.
+> 
+> What am I doing wrong?

You used 2028 block size with dd(1), you probably wanted to use 2048.

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